Pan conveyer



No. 749,038. PATENTED JAIL 5, 1904-.

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PAN OONVBYER.

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PATENT ()FFICE. I

JAMES M. DODGE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE LINK BELTENGINEERING COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVA- NIA, A CORPORATION OFPENNSYLVANIA.

PAN CONVEYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,038, dated January5, 1904.

Application filed $eptemher 22, 1903. Serial No. 174,178. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES M. DODGE, a citizen of the United States,residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Pan Conveyors, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to so construct a panconveyer that thematerial carried by the conveyer can be discharged at to any point. Thisobject I attain by making the pan conveyor in sections, the sectionsbeing so hung to the conveyer-chain that when they come in contact withthe discharge de-- vice the pans will swing and discharge the load. Thedischarge device in the present instance is adjustable, so that it canbe shifted to discharge the load at any point desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improvedsectional pan :0 conveyer. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a transversesection on the line 3 3', Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side view showing theoverlapping pans, and Fig. 5 is a view of a modification.

A A are two endless chains connected together by axles a. Mounted onthese axles are. carrying-wheels a, which travel on rails O C. Theserails are supported in the present instance on suitable standards O,forming part of or secured to the base 0 B B are the sections of the panconveyer, having a bottom portion 1) and sides I). In the presentinstance the sections are open at each end, so that when they areassembled they form a continuous trough, into which the material can bedischarged from any suitable discharge-spout. The sections B are hungfrom the chains A A by two sets of arms at each side. The arms D of eachset cross the arms D, the arm D being attached to the 40 chain at d andconnected to the forward end of the section at (1 while the arm D ispivoted at d to the chain and to a pivot d near the rear endof thesection. On this pivot is a wheel d, which strikes against the dischargedevice when it is wished to tip the sections, as shown in Fig. 1.

Mounted on rails F F, secured to the base 0 are wheels e e, which arecarried by axles e, mounted on the discharge carriage E,

which has two side frames E E, extending 'upon each side of theconveyer, as shown,

and the upper edge of each frame E forms a rail 6 which is in the pathof the wheels d of the sections of the conveyer. v

Each end of the discharge device is inclined at c so that the wheels (1will first strike the incline and gradually travel up the incline to theflat portion, tilting the section and holding it in the dischargeposition until the Wheel reaches the opposite end of the dischargedevice. The flat portion 6 can be of any length desired. As soon as thesection passes the discharge device it will immediately right itself inposition to receive another load.

I preferably ofiset the rear portion of the bottom of each section, asindicated at B so that it will lap over the adjoining section. In someinstances the sections may simply have a butt-joint instead of alap-joint, and the sections may have a back forming independent buckets.

Instead of pivoting the links D D on the chain at the points indicatedin Fig. 1 one of the links may be pivoted to one of the axles, as shownin Fig. 5.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of two endless chainsconnected together, pan-sections mounted between the chains, one sectionoverlapping another, and two links on each side of each pan-section bywhich the said sections are suspended from the chains, said links beingso arranged that each section can be tilted to discharge its load,substantially as described.

2. The combination in a pan conveyer, of an'endless chain, pan-sections,and crosslinks by which the sections are suspended from the chain,substantially as described.

3. The combination in a pan conveyer, of two chains connected together,pan-sections between the chains, each section having a bottom and sides,and cross-links pivoted to the chain and to the sections of the pan,substantially as described.

4. The combination of a chain at each side of the conveyer, cross-shaftsconnecting the chains, wheels carried by the cross-shafts,

rails on which the wheels travel, pan-sections, and cross-links pivotedto the chains and pivoted to the pan-sections, substantially asdescribed.

5. The combination of the two chains connected together, pan-sectionsmounted between the chains, cross-links connecting the pan-sections tothe chains, one pan-section overlapping the other so as to form acontinuous pan, substantially as described.

6. The combination of the chain, pan-sections, cross-links connectingthe pan-sections to the chain, with a discharge device so arranged thateach individual section will strike the discharge device and will tipand discharge its load, substantially as described.

7. The combination of the chains, pan-sections,cross-1inks connectingthe pan-sections to the chains, a wheel on each pan-section, with adischarge device having a portion on JAMES M. DODGE.

Witnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, J 0s. H. KLEIN.

